Please keep at least one language enabled. || కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
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Explanation:
• Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
• The work was published in 1792 and became a foundational text of modern feminist prose.
• Wollstonecraft argues that women appear intellectually inferior because they are denied serious education and independence.
• Her argument connects reason, virtue, citizenship and social reform.
• The work was published in 1792 and became a foundational text of modern feminist prose.
• Wollstonecraft argues that women appear intellectually inferior because they are denied serious education and independence.
• Her argument connects reason, virtue, citizenship and social reform.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What is the central educational claim of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
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Explanation:
• Wollstonecraft demands a rational education capable of developing women's judgement, virtue and independence.
• She criticizes training that values beauty, obedience and social charm above intellectual growth.
• Her argument holds that virtue should be based on reason for both women and men.
• Education is therefore presented as essential to equality and responsible citizenship.
• She criticizes training that values beauty, obedience and social charm above intellectual growth.
• Her argument holds that virtue should be based on reason for both women and men.
• Education is therefore presented as essential to equality and responsible citizenship.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which thinker is directly criticized by Wollstonecraft for recommending an education for women centred on pleasing and serving men?
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Explanation:
• Wollstonecraft criticizes Jean-Jacques Rousseau's educational model for women, especially the formation of Sophie in Emile.
• Rousseau assigns women a dependent and complementary role centred on male needs.
• Wollstonecraft argues that such education manufactures weakness rather than expressing natural inferiority.
• Locke, Burke and Mill belong to different intellectual debates, although Wollstonecraft also responded critically to Burke elsewhere.
• Rousseau assigns women a dependent and complementary role centred on male needs.
• Wollstonecraft argues that such education manufactures weakness rather than expressing natural inferiority.
• Locke, Burke and Mill belong to different intellectual debates, although Wollstonecraft also responded critically to Burke elsewhere.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which statement best describes Wollstonecraft's relation between reason and virtue?
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Explanation:
• Wollstonecraft rejects a double moral standard for women and men.
• She argues that genuine virtue must arise from reason rather than passive obedience or social appearance.
• If women are moral agents, they require education and freedom to exercise judgement.
• Her feminist argument is therefore also an argument about universal ethics.
• She argues that genuine virtue must arise from reason rather than passive obedience or social appearance.
• If women are moral agents, they require education and freedom to exercise judgement.
• Her feminist argument is therefore also an argument about universal ethics.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Consider the following statements about A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Statement I: Wollstonecraft links women's dependence with defective education and restricted social roles.
Statement II: She argues that fashionable accomplishments alone produce genuine intellectual equality.
Statement I: Wollstonecraft links women's dependence with defective education and restricted social roles.
Statement II: She argues that fashionable accomplishments alone produce genuine intellectual equality.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Wollstonecraft treats dependence as socially produced through education, law and custom.
• Statement II is incorrect because she criticizes ornamental accomplishments when they replace serious intellectual formation.
• She seeks education that develops reason, responsibility and self-command.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because she criticizes ornamental accomplishments when they replace serious intellectual formation.
• She seeks education that develops reason, responsibility and self-command.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
According to Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, which material conditions are especially necessary for a woman who wishes to write fiction?
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Explanation:
• Woolf argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own in order to write fiction.
• Income provides economic independence, while private space protects sustained intellectual work from interruption.
• The argument exposes the material foundations of literary production.
• Talent alone cannot flourish when education, privacy and financial security are denied.
• Income provides economic independence, while private space protects sustained intellectual work from interruption.
• The argument exposes the material foundations of literary production.
• Talent alone cannot flourish when education, privacy and financial security are denied.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What is the main purpose of Woolf's fictional figure Judith Shakespeare?
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Explanation:
• Judith Shakespeare is an imagined sister whose genius equals that of William Shakespeare.
• Woolf shows that lack of education, freedom, income and theatrical access would prevent such talent from developing.
• The fiction reveals a historical truth about the suppression of women's creativity.
• Judith is therefore an argumentative device rather than a claim about actual authorship.
• Woolf shows that lack of education, freedom, income and theatrical access would prevent such talent from developing.
• The fiction reveals a historical truth about the suppression of women's creativity.
• Judith is therefore an argumentative device rather than a claim about actual authorship.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which work by Virginia Woolf most directly examines the connections among patriarchy, education, professions and the prevention of war?
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Explanation:
• Three Guineas examines how patriarchal institutions shape education, professional life, nationalism and war.
• Woolf considers how women might oppose militarism without simply entering existing structures of power.
• The work combines letters, photographs, political argument and feminist analysis.
• Orlando and Mrs Dalloway are novels, while The Common Reader is a collection of literary essays.
• Woolf considers how women might oppose militarism without simply entering existing structures of power.
• The work combines letters, photographs, political argument and feminist analysis.
• Orlando and Mrs Dalloway are novels, while The Common Reader is a collection of literary essays.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which statement best describes Woolf's method in A Room of One's Own?
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Explanation:
• Woolf combines fictional narration, personal observation, literary history and argumentative reflection.
• The flexible form allows her to show how gender shapes access to institutions and cultural memory.
• Imaginative devices such as Judith Shakespeare clarify structural exclusion.
• The work is neither a purely statistical report nor a conventional legal or theological document.
• The flexible form allows her to show how gender shapes access to institutions and cultural memory.
• Imaginative devices such as Judith Shakespeare clarify structural exclusion.
• The work is neither a purely statistical report nor a conventional legal or theological document.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Who wrote The Second Sex?
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Explanation:
• Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex.
• The work was first published in French in 1949.
• Beauvoir examines how woman is socially constructed as the Other within patriarchal culture.
• The book combines philosophy, history, literature, biology and social analysis.
• The work was first published in French in 1949.
• Beauvoir examines how woman is socially constructed as the Other within patriarchal culture.
• The book combines philosophy, history, literature, biology and social analysis.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What is the main implication of Beauvoir's claim that one becomes a woman rather than simply being born one?
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Explanation:
• Beauvoir distinguishes biological existence from the social formation of gendered identity.
• Culture, education, labour, sexuality and institutions teach individuals how femininity should be performed.
• The claim does not deny bodily materiality or differences among women's experiences.
• It challenges the belief that restrictive gender roles are natural and unchangeable.
• Culture, education, labour, sexuality and institutions teach individuals how femininity should be performed.
• The claim does not deny bodily materiality or differences among women's experiences.
• It challenges the belief that restrictive gender roles are natural and unchangeable.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
In Beauvoir's analysis, woman is frequently constructed in relation to man as what?
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Explanation:
• Beauvoir argues that man is positioned as the norm or absolute subject, while woman is defined as the Other.
• This asymmetry makes women appear secondary, dependent or inessential.
• Otherness is produced socially and historically rather than being a natural destiny.
• Liberation requires women to claim subjectivity, freedom and material independence.
• This asymmetry makes women appear secondary, dependent or inessential.
• Otherness is produced socially and historically rather than being a natural destiny.
• Liberation requires women to claim subjectivity, freedom and material independence.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Assertion: Beauvoir treats economic independence as important to women's liberation.
Reason: Dependence within domestic and labour structures can restrict women's ability to act as autonomous subjects.
Reason: Dependence within domestic and labour structures can restrict women's ability to act as autonomous subjects.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Beauvoir connects freedom with material conditions and access to productive work.
• The Reason is correct because economic dependence can reinforce domestic subordination and limited choice.
• Employment alone does not automatically eliminate patriarchy, but it can expand practical autonomy.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because economic dependence can reinforce domestic subordination and limited choice.
• Employment alone does not automatically eliminate patriarchy, but it can expand practical autonomy.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which writer deliberately uses a lower-case version of her pen name to shift attention from individual authorship to ideas and collective struggle?
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Explanation:
• bell hooks adopted the name from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.
• She used lower-case letters to emphasize the substance of her work rather than personal celebrity.
• Her essays connect feminism with race, class, education, love and systems of domination.
• The stylistic choice reflects her resistance to hierarchical ideas of authority.
• She used lower-case letters to emphasize the substance of her work rather than personal celebrity.
• Her essays connect feminism with race, class, education, love and systems of domination.
• The stylistic choice reflects her resistance to hierarchical ideas of authority.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which work by bell hooks examines the historical relationship among racism, sexism and the experiences of Black women?
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Explanation:
• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism is a major work by bell hooks.
• It analyses the combined effects of racism and sexism on Black women from slavery onward.
• hooks criticizes feminist movements that centre white middle-class women and antiracist movements that ignore gender.
• The book demonstrates the need for an interconnected analysis of domination.
• It analyses the combined effects of racism and sexism on Black women from slavery onward.
• hooks criticizes feminist movements that centre white middle-class women and antiracist movements that ignore gender.
• The book demonstrates the need for an interconnected analysis of domination.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
What is a central argument of bell hooks's Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center?
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Explanation:
• hooks argues that feminist theory becomes distorted when it treats privileged women's experiences as universal.
• Moving from margin to centre requires attention to race, class, poverty and other relations of power.
• She defines feminism as a movement to end sexist oppression rather than as a lifestyle for individuals.
• Inclusive feminist politics must transform interconnected systems of domination.
• Moving from margin to centre requires attention to race, class, poverty and other relations of power.
• She defines feminism as a movement to end sexist oppression rather than as a lifestyle for individuals.
• Inclusive feminist politics must transform interconnected systems of domination.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about bell hooks.
1. She treats education as a possible practice of freedom.
2. She examines race, class and gender as interconnected structures.
3. She defines feminism as the pursuit of female dominance over men.
4. She criticizes theories that universalize the experience of privileged women.
1. She treats education as a possible practice of freedom.
2. She examines race, class and gender as interconnected structures.
3. She defines feminism as the pursuit of female dominance over men.
4. She criticizes theories that universalize the experience of privileged women.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because hooks presents engaged education as potentially liberating.
• Statement 2 is correct because her work analyses race, class and gender together.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because she defines feminism as opposition to sexist oppression, not female domination.
• Statement 4 is correct because she challenges the universalization of privileged women's experience.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because her work analyses race, class and gender together.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because she defines feminism as opposition to sexist oppression, not female domination.
• Statement 4 is correct because she challenges the universalization of privileged women's experience.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Who wrote the essay The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House?
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Explanation:
• Audre Lorde wrote The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House.
• The essay criticizes feminist institutions that reproduce racism, exclusion and hierarchy.
• Lorde argues that genuine transformation cannot be achieved through the unchanged methods of oppressive systems.
• Difference must be recognized as a source of knowledge and creative power.
• The essay criticizes feminist institutions that reproduce racism, exclusion and hierarchy.
• Lorde argues that genuine transformation cannot be achieved through the unchanged methods of oppressive systems.
• Difference must be recognized as a source of knowledge and creative power.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which collection includes many of Audre Lorde's major essays and speeches?
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Explanation:
• Sister Outsider collects important essays and speeches by Audre Lorde.
• Its subjects include race, sexuality, anger, silence, difference, poetry and feminist politics.
• The collection presents the perspective of a Black lesbian feminist poet and activist.
• The other works are associated with Germaine Greer, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and Kate Millett.
• Its subjects include race, sexuality, anger, silence, difference, poetry and feminist politics.
• The collection presents the perspective of a Black lesbian feminist poet and activist.
• The other works are associated with Germaine Greer, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and Kate Millett.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which idea is central to Lorde's The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action?
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Explanation:
• Lorde argues that silence does not ultimately protect those who are marginalized.
• Speaking involves danger, but unspoken experience can also produce isolation and powerlessness.
• Language can connect private fear with collective action.
• The essay therefore presents voice as a difficult but necessary form of resistance.
• Speaking involves danger, but unspoken experience can also produce isolation and powerlessness.
• Language can connect private fear with collective action.
• The essay therefore presents voice as a difficult but necessary form of resistance.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Mary Wollstonecraft
2. Virginia Woolf
3. Simone de Beauvoir
4. Audre Lorde
List II
a. The Second Sex
b. Sister Outsider
c. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
d. A Room of One's Own
List I
1. Mary Wollstonecraft
2. Virginia Woolf
3. Simone de Beauvoir
4. Audre Lorde
List II
a. The Second Sex
b. Sister Outsider
c. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
d. A Room of One's Own
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mary Wollstonecraft is matched with A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
• Virginia Woolf is matched with A Room of One's Own.
• Simone de Beauvoir is matched with The Second Sex.
• Audre Lorde is matched with Sister Outsider.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b.
• Virginia Woolf is matched with A Room of One's Own.
• Simone de Beauvoir is matched with The Second Sex.
• Audre Lorde is matched with Sister Outsider.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Arrange the following works in chronological order of first publication.
1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
2. A Room of One's Own
3. The Second Sex
4. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
2. A Room of One's Own
3. The Second Sex
4. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published in 1792.
• A Room of One's Own appeared in 1929.
• The Second Sex was first published in French in 1949.
• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism was published in 1981.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• A Room of One's Own appeared in 1929.
• The Second Sex was first published in French in 1949.
• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism was published in 1981.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• bell hooks does not restrict feminism to privileged white women.
• She criticizes precisely such exclusions and calls for feminist theory rooted in the experiences of marginalized groups.
• Wollstonecraft is correctly associated with rational education and equal moral standards.
• Woolf examines material conditions of authorship, while Beauvoir analyses woman as the Other.
• She criticizes precisely such exclusions and calls for feminist theory rooted in the experiences of marginalized groups.
• Wollstonecraft is correctly associated with rational education and equal moral standards.
• Woolf examines material conditions of authorship, while Beauvoir analyses woman as the Other.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A feminist study examines unpaid domestic work, wage inequality and the unequal distribution of caregiving. Which concept is most directly under analysis?
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Explanation:
• Gendered labour refers to the unequal organization and valuation of work according to gender.
• Domestic work and caregiving are often unpaid or socially undervalued despite their economic importance.
• Wage inequality and occupational segregation extend the problem into paid employment.
• Feminist prose makes such apparently private arrangements visible as political and social structures.
• Domestic work and caregiving are often unpaid or socially undervalued despite their economic importance.
• Wage inequality and occupational segregation extend the problem into paid employment.
• Feminist prose makes such apparently private arrangements visible as political and social structures.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement about feminist non-fiction is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Feminist non-fiction often connects personal experience with wider structures of power.
• Wollstonecraft examines education, Woolf material access, Beauvoir social construction, hooks interconnected domination and Lorde difference and voice.
• The tradition does not assume a single universal female experience.
• Its essays use analysis, memory, polemic and testimony to challenge inequality and imagine social transformation.
• Wollstonecraft examines education, Woolf material access, Beauvoir social construction, hooks interconnected domination and Lorde difference and voice.
• The tradition does not assume a single universal female experience.
• Its essays use analysis, memory, polemic and testimony to challenge inequality and imagine social transformation.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Mary Wollstonecraft సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Women should receive rational education that develops independence and virtue. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Women and men should be judged by the same rational principles of virtue. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. An independent income and a private room సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. To demonstrate how social barriers could destroy the career of a woman with genius equal to Shakespeare's సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Three Guineas సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: C. A blend of fictional scenes, personal reflection, historical inquiry and argument సమాధానం: C.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Simone de Beauvoir సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. Gender identity is shaped through social practices, expectations and institutions. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. The Other సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. bell hooks సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Feminist politics must include those marginalized by race, class and other structures of domination. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Audre Lorde సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. Sister Outsider సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Breaking silence can become an act of survival, solidarity and resistance despite fear. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. bell hooks — feminism restricted to privileged white women సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Gendered labour సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. It uses personal voice and intellectual argument to expose how gender interacts with institutions, race, class, labour and culture. సమాధానం: C.